1. AP WORLD HISTORY:
PERIODIZATION

2. WHAT IS PERIODIZATION? Each period is defined by 3 conditions
A geographical component: civilization
spreads or expands
contracts shrinks
Increase, decrease in contacts across regions
Emergence of parallel developments across globe
Define a Period/Turning Point
may occur
At different time
In different regions
Dates are not the best way
Significant Change (power/technology/commerce/etc.)

3. Technological & Environmental Transformations 8,000 BCE to 600 BCE
What was it like before?/What was the change?/What happened to the nomads?
Change begins w/ agr./sed.
Generally small city-states, few empires
Two Sub-periods
Neolithic
Ancient River Valley Civilizations
Language, Religion, Law, Building, Trade
Ends with rise of large, regional empires

4. Organization and Re-organization of Human Society
600 BCE to 600 CE
Large, regional empires
Military aristocracies
Integrate regions
Permanent traditions
Regional Civilizations
China, India, SW Asia (Cuneiform), Mediterranean
Mesoamerica and Andean America
Strong contacts between regional centers
Many areas outside classical civilizations
Ends with massive nomadic invasions

5. Regional & Trans-regional Interactions 6OO CE to 1450 CE
Rise of Islam & Chinese Renaissance
1st trans-regional civilization
Spain-Africa-Eurasia
Innovations: travel & imitated
Spread of universalizing religions, philosophies
New civilization centers-Entrepots
Connected by the Silk Road network
Peaked with Mongols, Hit rock bottom w/ Black Death

6. Global Interactions Begins 1450 AD TO AD 1750
Rise of gunpowder empires
Muslim
Western Europe
World Shrinks
All continents included in world network
Global trade develops for first time
Great exchanges
Goods, products, flora, fauna, people, germs, metals
Ideas especially European, Christianity

7. Industrialization and Global Integration
1750 CE to 1900CE: “The West & the Rest”
Era of many revolutions
Technological
Political
Social, Intellectual
Faster & Broader trade networks
Western Global Hegemony-Imperialist
Great Britain, France, Germany, Russia
USA, Japan are newest powers
Westernization vs. Modernization

8. Accelerating Global Change and Realignment
1900 to Present “Change, Change, Change”
The American Century, Retreat of Europe
Rise of Pacific Rim, India
Collapse of European empires
Modernization vs. westernization
Modernization vs. traditionalism
Rise of new political forms
Mass culture
Technology, telecommunications dominate age